If you die, I die: Chinese officer’s cuffs rescue

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Dramatic images were released yesterday of the moment a Chinese police officer handcuffed himself to a suicidal woman who threatened to jump from the top of a building.

The young woman had scaled a railing above the Sanlitun Hooters restaurant in Beijing and was seen hanging from a billboard.

Police were called and tried to talk her out of leaping. She was rescued when an officer clasped his handcuffs around her wrist and pulled her to safety using a length of rope. He then threw the key over the ledge. “She knew if she died, she’d take someone with her.